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Commentary

This seal and BZS.1958.106.827 come from the same boulloterion. Their readings have been combined.

It is possible that the final line on the reverse could be read as Καμά[χ(ου)], but we have retained Κάμα on the strength of its attestation as a strategis in the Escorial Taktikon (which is not the case of Kamachos).

Kama (Κάμα), which could be identical to the Paulician fortress of Κάμεια, is attested as the seat of a strategos in the Escorial Taktikon, but its exact location remains uncertain. It is most probably to be identified with the village of Kaman lying south of Derzene in the region of Mananali. It possessed also a monastery. See Oikonomides, Listes, 267, 360; and “Organisation,” 292.